On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, R. G. Newbury wrote:
As to laptops, I have had a great longterm relationship with IBM Thinkpads going back at least 12 years for hardware and 4 years for Linux. Admittedly the button as mouse is a learned thing: personally I had the scratchpad mouse and have it turned off on my T40. The T40, like its predecessors, the 600 and 600E found all of the hardware except for the usual modem problems. The Wave modem in the 600's was always problematic. The modem in the T40 does work with slmodem but I don't use it anyway. The Cisco Aironet 350 wireless card is flakey about connecting with WEP and I will probably replace is with an Intel 2200BG card. Otherwise, the T40 rocks and I suspect that ALL of the Thinkpads will do the same.
Just to repeat one warning: You *must* get the IBM/Lenovo official, branded IPW2200. The BIOS will refuse to enable generic ones. Works pretty well though. The IPW driver seems to be more stable than the Cisco one.
-- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
